lash
adjective
1. (obsolete) Remiss, lax.
2. (obsolete) Relaxed.
3. Soft, watery, wet.
4. (Ulster) excellent, wonderful
- We’re off school tomorrow, it’s gonna be lash!
- That Chinese (food) was lash!
5. Drunk.
noun
1. any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids
Similar word(s): cilium, eyelash
Definition categories: body, hair
2. leather strip that forms the flexible part of a whip
Similar word(s): thong
Definition categories: man–made
3. a quick blow delivered with a whip or whiplike object
Similar word(s): whip, whiplash
Definition categories: act, blow
Sentences with lash as a noun:
- The culprit received thirty-nine lashes.
verb
1. beat severely with a whip or rod
Similar word(s): flog, lather, slash, strap, trounce, welt, whip
Definition categories: contact, beat
2. lash or flick about sharply
- The lion lashed its tail
Definition categories: motion, sway, swing
3. strike as if by whipping
Similar word(s): whip
Definition categories: contact, strike
4. bind with a rope, chain, or cord
- lash the horse
Definition categories: contact, bind, tie
Sentences with lash as a verb:
- We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward. — John Dryden
- the whale lashes the sea with its tail.
- And big waves lash the frighted shores. — John Dryden
- He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws. — John Dryden
- to lash vice
- To laugh at follies, or to lash at vice. — John Dryden
- to lash something to a spar
- lash a pack on a horse's back